Both “Empire” and “Je décolle” hit the top spot on the charts
High School promises to be a unique coming-of-age story
Honour to be presented at 2019 SOCAN Awards in Toronto
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Also runs music library, composes for others
Nine co-writes created at SOCAN Song Camps launched as singles
By the songwriter’s side, for the last 20 years
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How to get paid when your music’s played onscreen
What is it? What do you need to know about it?
How to increase your chances of applying successfully
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Currently lobbying government on several key issues
Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts
De nombreux changements et innovations
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Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and
Young band also challenges dismissive sound people
Innu artist offers his raw, uninhibited writing style
Winning song in 2018 SOCAN Songwriting Prize
Effect of fatherhood, value of vulnerability
With acoustic twin of “broken-hearted party-rock” album
With their self-described “folk 'n’ roll and country sou...
A day in the crazy-busy life of longtime broadcaster
A ‘90s rock vibe album, then more focus on songwriting
SOCAN Songwriting Prize Winners discusses their process
Jordan Benjamin is angry, and he wants you to hear it
Family band’s teen sons garage-rock the house
Band pokes fun at fragile egos of music world
Bonnie Dobson will perform it at 2018 Mariposa Folk Festival
Exploring tension, unifying disparate recordings
Band launches ninth album, just shy of 30th anniversary
Trying to write songs as good as classic rock
She sings about love and death with stunning poetry
Artist faces his demons on Plaza
With Felt album, Montréal quartet takes a new turn
“I’ll have succeeded when I’m the one people think of,...